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Second World War Bomb Was Dropped
3,349 wordsAt 11: 02 a. m. , August 9, 1945 an atomic bomb exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black stone monolith marks the hypocenter. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees, and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble. About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150, 000 people killed or injured, and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of...
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Barbed Wire Death Camps
1,780 wordsAs a person looks at the last thousand years of history, many events come to mind. To be more specific, many world-changing events have occurred. Many of them have good explanations, or just reason as to why they happened. There were also a handful of events that had no rhyme or reason. These are the events the world may never understand. In the writer's mind, these are the events that changed the world the most. There is one particular event that seems to stand out when considering only the eve...
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Metric Tons Carbon Emissions
1,358 words... about 430 Mmcf / d at approximately $ 1. 25 /million Btu. Amoco operates three fields and the 800 -Mmcf / d Santa processing facility in conjunction with the A project to pipe gas from the offshore Khuff field to Dubai and the Taweelah industrial complex was abandoned in May 1999. Instead, Dubai will be connected to the main Abu Dhabi gas receiving station by a pipeline. The UAE's soaring demand for electric power, coupled with volatile swings in peak loads, led the Emirates in 1997 to form ...
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Machine Gun Fire Put Into Place
2,356 wordsD-Day, June 6, 1944 was the focal point of the greatest and most planned out invasion of all time. The Allied invasion of France was long awaited and tactfully thought out. For months the Allied forces of millions of soldiers trained in Britain waiting for the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, General Eisenhower to set a date. June 5, 1944 was to be the day with the H-hour at 06: 30. The vast power of an Allied Army 2. 5 million strong lay coiled in England, ready to spring a...
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Environmental Protection Water Consumption
357 wordsGazprom is pioneer in Russia in introducing the system of production / ecological monitoring of its units Gazprom's ecological policy in a progress of its realization The Company operates in the framework of ecological policy adopted in 1995. Environmental protection is continuously funded: 168 mln rubles of capital investments were allocated for this purpose in 1998. Running expenses covered from internal funds of Gazprom's enterprises were 3 times higher compared to 1997 and amounted 1. 2 bln ...
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Persian Gulf War War On Iraq
2,620 words... al warfare agents. In the defense, integrating chemical weapons offered a solution to the masses of lightly armed Basic and Posdoran. Chemical weapons were singularly effective when used on troop assembly areas and supporting artillery. When conducting offensive operations, Iraq routinely supported the attacks with deep fires and integrated chemical fires on forward defenses, command posts, artillery positions, and logistical facilities. War Termination The Iran-Iraq war lasted nearly eight ...
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Mutual Fund Investment Objective
625 wordsOriginal Post: 15 - 08 - 04; Reposted on 07 - 03 - 05 A Mutual Fund is a trust that pools the savings of a number of investors who share a common financial goal. The money thus collected is invested by the fund manager in different types of securities depending upon the objective of the scheme. These could range from shares to debentures to money market instruments. The income earned through these investments and the capital appreciation realized by the scheme are shared by its unit holders in p...
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Critically Evaluate Marginal And Absorption Costing
1,932 words3. 1 Introduction The key issue between absorption costing and marginal costing is how the costs of a business's input resources are best organised and presented so as to identify individual product / service and total business profit. The choice of costing system may be influenced by the costing method. Specific order costing methods will frequently deploy full absorption costing. One reason for this is that the pricing of each unique piece of work will invariably make reference to the total co...
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Floating Point Cost Efficient
1,879 wordsThe purpose of this paper assignment is to compare the Intel's IA- 32 Architecture with Sun UltraSPARC Architecture at a relatively broad level. First, I will introduce a brief history of each architecture family, and then follow that with a framework for making the comparison. Thereafter I will evaluate one product from each architecture family on the basis of the framework. In the conclusion I will state the preferred product and briefly summarize my reason for the choice. In the late 70 's, I...
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Gain Market Share Fed Exs
1,277 words... n 90 years ago and is six times bigger than that of Fed Exs. Thus, UPS can reach virtually every address in the U. S. - Integration of overnight delivery into its vast ground-transportation network. As a result overall overnight delivery cost is almost half of Fed Exs costs. - UPSs management is considered to be the broadest and deepest in the in-duty. - Best return on equity and balance sheet among the worlds major freight transportation companies. - Well-known corporate design (brown color...
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Campbell Soup Competitive Advantage
1,748 words1. Describe Campbell Soup's corporate strategy under Gordon McGovern's tenure. What key changes did David Johnson make? What about Dale Morrison? Joseph Campbell founded Campbell Soup Company in 1869. They are considered a leader in their industry. They employ over 24, 500 people and have revenues around 6 billion. Currently they have over 2000 products on the market. Over the years they have diversified into a number of businesses, however soup has been its core business. Since 1980, Campbell S...
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Swisher Mower And Machine Company Smc
1,077 wordsIntroduction Wayne Swisher, CEO of SMC, is concerned with the companys future prospects. The unit volume sales of the SMC riding mower, which constituted 64 % of the total sales of SMC, had plateaued in recent years. He is presented with an attractive private-brand arrangement that can impact Smc's prospects and has to decide whether to accept it. Alternatively, or additionally, he can decide to have more aggressive advertising and sales effort to recruit new dealers and assist current dealers. ...
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Milton Meltzer Nuremberg Laws
786 wordsThe meaning of the title "Never To Forget" is very significant to the story of the Holocaust. The title simply means to forget what we know would not be human. It is very important that we never forget the Five Million Jews that lost their homes, property, freedom, dignity, and finally, their lives. We must always remember what happened to the Jews. Every time someone thinks of saying or doing something to a fellow human being we must remember the Holocaust. We must never forget to insure this w...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,602 wordsby Alejandro A. Alonso, M. S. In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the formation of street gangs increased at a steady pace through 1996. The Bloods and the Crips, the most well-known gangs of Los Angeles, are predominately African American[ 1 ] and they have steadily increased in number since their beginnings in 1969. In addition, there are over 600 active Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles County with a growing Asian gang population numbering approximately 20, 000 members. Sur...
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Rolls Royce Sales Volume
662 wordsThe same year, while Daimler-Benz was sewing up its $ 40. 5 billion transatlantic merger with Chrysler, BMW and Volkswagen were locked in combat in Europe. Both were determined to win possession of British trophy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, which had been put on the block by its owner, the Vickers engineering group. BMW had an inside track, as it already supplied engines and other parts for the new Rolls models and had a longstanding aero-engines joint venture with Rolls-Royce PLC, which owned the r...
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Latin Americans African Americans
1,342 wordsEthnicity and Community The problem of ethnicity and community becomes the issue of the day. As it s claimed by Roger Sanjer, the United States is undergoing the process called a majority minority transition, with the historic European-ancestry white majority projected to fall beneath 50 % of the population in the second half of the current century (Sanjer, 2001). Indeed, to a great extent, all the authors of the articles under study, such as Emily Rosenbaum in her article "The Constraints on Mi...
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Hundred And Fifty Americans And British
2,319 wordsOn June 6 th, 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers boarded landing craft off of the Normandy coast, for many of them, these would be the last hours of their life. The Allied invasion of the French coast was the turning point of Second World War. This single event paved the way for the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe. Hitler had worked his way into total seclusion from the Allies, except for the Soviet Union in the East, where the German Army was currently on the offensive. There were natural bo...
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Mid Nineteenth Century Struggle For Existence
3,917 wordsDarwin and the Victorian era The Victorian Age was a time when many views on human existence and destiny were formed and discussed. Strictly speaking the Victorian era denotes the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 - 1901. When this era came to an end, the ongoing concepts and controversies did not vanish. The old and the new are always confusingly interlocked in culture. The twentieth century inherited some of the ideas of the nineteenth century. Some of these new ideas culminated elaborate phil...
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Sulfur Dioxide Greenhouse Gases
1,219 words# 3 Externality The Global Tradable Pollution Permits Karen CHAN Ka Ying Introduction According to the basic theory of microeconomics, mutually beneficial trades are possible with the presence of marginal abatement costs differences. In terms of the trades of pollution permits, the level of pollution remains the same as when it is regulated by law; but the amount spent on pollution control is lower. Thus, we say that the practice of tradable pollution permits increases efficiency. In this essay,...
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Parking Lots Access Control
637 wordsOverview Implementation of theProposa Overview Implementation of the proposed electronic security system began on Monday, April 10, 2000. This first phase will be completed by the 31 st of May 2000 at a cost of approximately 1. 8 million Jamaican dollars. During this first phase, electronic barriers were installed at the main gates and the six internal parking lots. This will also include the installation of lighting fixtures located in the designated areas as described in the proposal. All the ...
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